I was playing about last night in paint shop pro and made a few Christmas signatures, To be honest i was hoping it would give me some inspiration as its been a long time since i have written a tutorial, But today i played around with one of Elaine’s vectors and colourized it a bit then the juices started flowing, i couldn’t put it down lol, so here it is a sneak preview of what i came up with, will hopefully get this written up for next week 🙂 this is resized the original is a lot bigger than this, thanks Elaine for letting me use your tube 🙂

I made this one from a tut at snakeladys for one of the ladies at the forum

if your new to paint shop pro this Screen Shot of the tools will come in handy ..just right click on it and save to your own hard drive

you will also notice i have a lot of words underlined they are links to more screen shots to help you :o)

ok are we ready to get started :o)

open up your psp and open a new workspace about 600 by 600 we can always resize later

set your stroke to null, any colour for the fill will do as we will be changing it

grab your text tool from the taskbar and click in your workspace and use these settings see pic below

you will now have something that resembles this picture, see pic below

the arrows i put in are pointing to liitle boxes if you place your cursor over these boxes you will notice you get a double arrow, now click on the box but don’t let go! keep holding and drag your text out, you can repeat this procedure for the boxes at the top and bottom until you get the desired height and width you like

after you have done that go up to layers on taskbar and scroll down to convert to raster layer and click

open up the striped tile background i supplied and minimize it for now

go up to selections and scroll down to select all and click then go back up to selections and click on float

now go up to selections on taskbar scroll down to modify then across to expand and click…another box will appear..put 3 in the box

now fill the text with red the one i choose was #C70E13 then go back up to selections and down to modify but this time go across to contract and put 1 in the box

now go over to your colour palette and click on your pattern now click inside the pattern fill box and another box will appear… as you can see from that pic the red arrow is pointing to a black arrow.. click on that and it will open up all the patterns you have, scroll to the top of the patterns and there you should see the striped tile pattern i supplied, now click on it then use the same settings as the pic above

now grab your flood fill and right click inside the floating text, your text should now be filled with the striped tile pattern :o)

now we want to apply a inner bevel go to effects scroll down to plugin filters then across to eyecandy3 and click on inner bevel apply these settings see pic below

now we want to go to eyecandy again only this time click on dropshadow instead of inner bevel with these settings see pic below

now open the tube and press shift and the letter d to make another copy and close the original, delete the watermark layer

now arrange your name and tube where you would like them to be apply eyecandy dropshadow to the tube, same settings as before, you might have to re-adjust your tube again

grab your presets shape tool so we can draw a star with these settings, make sure your stroke is set at null, for your background colour you could either use the striped tile or a solid colour its entirely up to you, now draw your star,

go to layers on taskbar and scroll down to convert to raster layer and click

apply the same eyecandy inner bevel then the same eyecandy dropshadow

you can now eitheir draw a cirle to hang your star with your pencil draw or you can use preset shapes again, i have tried both but must admit using preset shapes is easier :o)

grab your preset shapes again only this time select elipse with the same settings as before only this time i set background at null and stroke set to solid colour i choose red, when your drawing your circle don’t draw a full one see pic below

go to layers on taskbar and scroll down to convert to raster layer and click

add a dropshadow to your circle then hang it over a letter of your name like so

now we want to erase some of the circle so it looks like it wrapped over the text, so grab your eraser tool making sure the size is set to 1, you might need to zoom in a bit so you can see better, see pic below

now move your star up so it looks like its hanging from the circle,

now merge visible and resize if you wish, at this point you could take it into animation shop and save as a gif file, as you can see from my preview on the first page saving it as a jpeg distorts the colour a bit.

now sit back and admire your new tag :o)

thank you for doing my tut i hope you enjoyed it

if you have any questions please contact me using the contact form at the top of the blog and i will get back to you as soon as i can 🙂

make sure your on layer 2 then go up to effects and scroll down to enhance photo then across to Automatic Contrast Enhancement with these settings

now click on the glasses on your background layer then highlight your frame layer on the layer palette and right click on it and merge visible

now add a drop shadow with these settings or your preferred settings(effects scroll down to 3d effects then across to dropshadow)

i selected inside of all the frames with my lasso tool and used automatic saturation enhancement with settings of Bias normal and strength weak to make it a bit more colourfull as the dropshadow dulls it a bit but its totally optional :o)

now un x out your background layer so its showing

add a new layer for your text with these settings

apply a dropshadow with these settings

now Deselect your text. you can now merge your layers visible at this point or add the pink strip i supplied by going up to edit then scroll down to copy and click… then go to your template and right click inside it and click paste as a new layer and move it down under your text then mergle visible and save your tag as a jpeg file

now sit back and admire your new tag 🙂

i hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial if you have any questions or need any help you can contact me using the contact form at the top of the blog and i will get back to you as soon as i can :o)

For this tutorial you will need

a favorite poem, saying or psp brush

This tut is fairly easy and very quick honest 🙂

ok lets get started :o)

open your tube or the one i supplied in psp, you might want to resize mine a fair bit as it’s quite large

go up to layers on the top taskbar and click on new raster layer then floodfill your layer with white, then go back up to layers and click on arrange then across to send to bottom,

make sure your tube layer is highlighted before we apply the dropshadow etheir using my settings or your own…effects- -3d effect then across to dropshadow, the settings i used are

i added a short poem, my name and a border of 5 the colour i used was #FDD2DB, now you need to promote this layer for the gif-x plugin to work…….layers…promote to layer

now we can apply the plugin …effects ..plugins…ulead effects..GIF-X 2.0 , click on open book and use the factory settings or you can playaround with the settings until you get something you like

once your happy click on save then name your signature and voila you are done :o)

a wee tip: you might want to take it into animation shop to cut off some of the extra space around it but be careful you dont take the tops of the moving pages,

thank you for doing my tut i hope you enjoyed doing it as much as as i did at writing it :o) if you have any questions you can contact me using the contact form at the top of the blog, and i will get back to you asap :o)